“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”
“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.”
“High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.”
“You expect us to believe the damnedest things.”
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.”
“If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved. ”